Election Day

Former President Donald Trump quickly took the lead on election night, including in all of the swing states that either presidential candidate needed to win. By the next morning, Trump crossed the threshold of 270 electoral votes. Aside from his quick win, there are also other big ones, nail-biters and monumental losses that stand out in history.

Alabama voters are deciding who will represent a congressional district redrawn after a lengthy redistricting battle. Democrat Shomari Figures is a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. He faces Republican Caroleene Dobson, an attorney and political newcomer.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. Alabama is under a similar court order after evidence was raised that around two thousand of the voters removed in the state were legally able to cast a ballot.

The Alabama League of Women Voters is urging voters to see for themselves how their counties will handle things on election day. Public tests are being conducted on voting machines and local residents are being invited to watch.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met Tuesday, Sept. 10 in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, debating on abortion, immigration and American democracy. The ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that declared frozen embryos are children was also a talking point for both candidates.

In battleground states, a network of Republican political operatives and lawyers is trying to shape the November's election in favor of former President Donald Trump. They're propping up liberal third-party candidates such as Cornel West and Jill Stein in the hopes that those candidates will siphon off votes from Democrat Kamala Harris. The Associated Press reports one key figure is the former Chief of Staff to former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

A federal judge has sided with the state of Alabama in narrowing the scope of a lawsuit challenging a new law that criminalizes some ways of helping other people to apply for an absentee ballot.

Alabama says a new state law expanding the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote won't be enforced until after the November election and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the effective date.

With a historic election just months away, a legal advocacy organization in Alabama is warning about the rise of white supremacy in the state and across the country. The declaration comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center's “Annual Year in Hate & Extremism Report.”

Few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be tallied accurately in next year's presidential contest, suggesting years of sustained attacks against elections by former President Donald Trump and his allies have taken a toll, according to a new poll. All states except Alabama and Wisconsin reported using a method referred to as logic and accuracy testing to confirm that voting machines were tabulating votes correctly before the 2022 midterm elections, according to a report by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.